Peter Handke

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1976
  • Latest Book:
    February 2024
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Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays

    This volume of Handke's plays includes two full-length and four shorter plays by the young Austrian playwright. The first of the full-length plays, The Ride Across Lake Constance, is one of Handke's best-known works. It deals directly with one of...

  • Moment of True Feeling

    At the beginning of Peter Handke's novel, Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has committed murder, and announces, "From today on, I shall be leading a double life." The duplicity, however, lies only in Keuschnig's mind; his everyd...

  • Left Handed Women

    One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years t...

  • Left-Handed Woman

    A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke''s The Left-Handed Woman.

    One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are d...

  • Two Novels by Peter Handke

  • The Weight of the World

    A combination of professional notebook and personal diary that records -- both in short, informal jottings and through more formal, extended meditations -- the details of Handke's daily life in Paris from November 1975 through March 1977. Along with ...

  • Slow Homecoming

    By Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke

    Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the pow...

  • Three by Peter Handke

    The question is whether Handke is Existentialist or Post Modern. This collection includes three of the best examples of mid-Twentieth Century European experimental fiction: The Goalie's Anxiety At The Penalty Kick; Short Letter, Long Farewell; and A ...

  • Repetition

    Set in 1960, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's Repetition tells of Filib Kobal's journey from his home in Carinthia to Slovenia on the trail of his missing brother, Gregor. He is armed only with two of Gregor's books: a copy book from agricultural...



  • Three Times Handke

  • The Afternoon of a Writer

    In Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's The Afternoon of a Writer, a writer, fearful of losing his abilities and hence his connection with the world, takes an afternoon walk and has several encounters that reaffirm his confidence......

  • Two by Handke

  • Jukebox and Other Writings

    Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers three intimate, eloquent meditations that map a self-reflexive journey from Alaska to the Austria of his childhood, while illuminating the act of writing itself.

    In his "Essay on Tiredness," Handke tran...

  • A Journey to the Rivers

  • My Year In No Man's Bay

    Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's autobiographical novel My Year in No-Man's Bay is "a meditation on two decades of a writer's life culminating in a solitary, sobering year of reckoning" (Publishers Weekly).

    In his most substantial novel to ...

  • Once Again for Thucydides

    Once Again for Thucydides is a collection of seventeen “micro-epics” written by Peter Handke on trips around the world, from the Balkans to the Pyrenees, from Salzburg to the sea of Hokkaido in Japan. In each journal, Handke concentrates on smal...

  • Absence

    A “challenging and rewarding novel”* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.

    The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gam...

  • Across

    "Those who gravitate to the regions where fiction, poetry, imaginative flights and speculative fancy converge constitute Handke's natural audience." - Publishers Weekly

    Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novel Across tells the story of a quie...

  • On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House

    A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language.

    On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House is Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's conflict with h...



  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her sui...

  • Crossing the Sierra de Gredos

    On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having commiss...

  • The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

    The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the…breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger" (The New Yor...

  • Short Letter, Long Farewell


    By Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke

    Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book ...

  • Don Juan: His Own Version

    In Don Juan, Peter Handke offers his take on the famous seducer. Don Juans story"his own version"is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of ...

  • The Moravian Night

    An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe’s most provocative novelists Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of an old writer listen as he te...

  • Till Day You Do Part

    Described as an answer to or at least an echo of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape?, Till Day You Do Part Or A Question of Light, by esteemed Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke, is a monologue delivered by the “she” in Beckett�...

  • Storm Still

    Peter Handke, a giant of Austrian literature, has produced decades of fiction, poetry, and drama informed by some of the most tumultuous events in modern history. But even as these events shaped his work, the presence of his mother -- a woman whose l...

  • The Great Fall

    “On the day of the Great Fall he left nothing, nothing at all behind.”
    The latest work by Peter Handke, one of our greatest living writers, chronicles a day in life of an aging actor as he makes his way on foot from the outskirts of a great...

  • The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick



  • Quiet Places

    A career-spanning collection of essays by Nobel laureate Peter Handke, featuring two new works never before published in EnglishQuiet Places brings together Peter Handke’s forays into the border regions of life and story, upending the distincti...

  • The Fruit Thief; or, One-Way Journey into the Interior

    A major new novel from the Nobel laureate Peter Handke -- one of his most inventive and dazzlingly original worksOn a summer day under a blue sky a man is stung on his foot by a bee. “The sting signaled that the time had come to set out, to hit the...

  • The Second Sword

    Two novellas by Peter Handke—his first new works since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two new novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where Han...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Handke has published 32 books.

The next book by Peter Handke, The Second Sword, will be published in February 2024.

The first book by Peter Handke, The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays, was published in October 1976.

No. Peter Handke does not write books in series.
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